Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Intellectual Property Group
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Patent number: 8268519Abstract: A curable composition including (A) a compound which has a plurality of ethylenically unsaturated double bonds and secondary hydroxyl groups, (B) a photopolymerization initiator, and (C) a coloring agent, is used to provide a curable composition which exhibits excellent storage stability such as dispersion stability even in the case where a coloring agent is included at high concentration, highly sensitive curability by exposure, high adhesiveness to the surface of a hardening material in a curing region when applied in forming patterns on the surface of the hardening material, excellent uncured region removability, and excellent pattern formability; a color filter having colored patterns, which is formed by using the curable composition and has excellent resolution and adhesiveness to the support; and a manufacturing method of the coloring filter with high productivity.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2007Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Taeko Nakashima, Kazuto Shimada
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Patent number: 8265225Abstract: The present invention provides a radiation imaging system, a power supplying apparatus, a charging apparatus, and a radiation imaging method that can prevent misidentification of an imaging subject to be imaged without requiring a large-scale configuration. Namely, a power supplying apparatus which is detachably mounted to an electronic cassette is provided with a display section that displays imaging subject information associated with an imaging subject.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2010Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Nishino, Keizo Katayama, Atsushi Yamazaki, Yasunori Ohta
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Patent number: 8260149Abstract: The device is structured to have a first electric modulation signal generator, a second electric modulation signal generator, a two-mode beat light source and an optical intensity modulator. The first electric modulation signal generator generates and outputs a first electric modulation signal. The second electric modulation signal generator generates and outputs a second electric modulation signal of a same frequency as the first electric modulation signal and to which a phase difference of ? radians is provided (? is a real number satisfying 0????). The two-mode beat light source is driven by the first electric modulation signal, and generates and outputs two-mode beat light. The two-mode beat light is inputted to the optical intensity modulator, and the optical intensity modulator generates and outputs a CS optical pulse train. Light transmittance of the optical intensity modulator is modulated by the second electric modulation signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shin Arahira
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Patent number: 8251218Abstract: Disclosed is a package for storing a product, such as smokeless tobacco, which includes, inter alia, a container that has opposing upper and lower surfaces, and a container sidewall that extends between the upper and lower surfaces to define an interior for storing a plurality of products. The upper surface of the container has an apex intermediate a first region and a second region and the container sidewall defines an opening sized and configured to release at least one of the products. The package also includes an outer cover having an upper section and a cover sidewall depending from the upper section. The outer cover is configured to retain the container and selectively seal the opening. The container pivots about the apex to transition between open and closed positions.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: MeadWestvaco CorporationInventor: John Gelardi
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Patent number: 8251214Abstract: A blister card includes graphics printed on a substrate surface, which is then cut to produce an opening through which a blister may be received. The cut-out portion of the substrate is transferred in proper register to a position behind the blister so as to provide a continuous graphic image on the package. A method is also described for providing background graphics on a blister card in the region behind the blister.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: MeadWestvaco CorporationInventor: Michael P Wade
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Patent number: 8240838Abstract: An ink composition for inkjet recording is provided. The ink composition contains (a) a monomer containing a fluorinated alkylene group and two or more polymerizable groups, (b) a photo initiator, and (c) a polymerizable monomer.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Yokoi, Taiji Katsumata
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Patent number: 8235613Abstract: A label printer includes a cutter mechanism, a main body frame, and an upper cover. The cutter mechanism includes an upper blade which is a fixed blade and a lower blade which is a moving blade that advances and retreats relative to the upper blade, and that cuts a printing medium by causing the lower blade to advance and retreat relative to the upper blade. The lower blade is attached to the main body frame. The upper blade is attached to the upper cover, which opens and closes an upper portion of the main body frame. The upper blade is separated from the lower blade when the upper cover is opened.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2008Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha SatoInventor: Shinichiro Hosono
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Patent number: 8237127Abstract: An electronic cassette has a casing that houses a radiation converter thereinside. The radiation converter detects radiation from a radiation source that has been transmitted through a subject, and converts the radiation into radiographic image information. Plural handles are disposed on the casing of the electronic cassette, so that a person can grip the plural handles and carry the electronic cassette. Thus, the person can grip and carry the electronic cassette while dispersing the weight of the electronic cassette, so carrying the electronic cassette becomes easy. Further, when the person loads the electronic cassette into a shooting table or the like, the person can grip either of the plural handles and load the electronic cassette. For this reason, handling of the electronic cassette becomes easy.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yutaka Yoshida, Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Keiji Tsubota, Takeshi Kamiya
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Patent number: 8235483Abstract: A droplet jetting device that includes a recording head section, a pressure sensor and a regulation pump is provided. The recording head section includes a recording head that jets droplets from nozzles and records an image at a recording medium. The pressure sensor is provided at the recording head section and senses a pressure of liquid supplied to the recording head by a main pump from a main tank. The main tank is disposed at a position away from the recording head section. The regulation pump is provided at the recording head section that is smaller in scale than the main pump and regulates pressure of the liquid such that the pressure of the liquid sensed by the pressure sensor is constant.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoshinori Kato, Takamichi Fujii, Shuhei Hoshino
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Patent number: 8237360Abstract: Disclosed is a color display device containing plural pixels on a substrate, each pixel is composed of plural sub-pixels which emit lights different in wavelength in the visible range and a white sub-pixel, the plural sub-pixels and the white sub-pixel each have a white organic electroluminescence layer interposed between an optically semitransparent reflection layer and a light reflection layer, the optical distance between the optically semitransparent reflection layer and the light reflection layer in each of the plural sub-pixels forms a resonator having a distance for resonating emitted light, and the optical distance between the optically semitransparent reflection layer and the light reflection layer in the white sub-pixel is longer than the maximum optical distance between the optically semitransparent reflection layer and the light reflection layer in each of the plural sub-pixels.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Masaru Kinoshita
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Patent number: 8236395Abstract: The inkjet recording medium herein provided has at least: a support; and an ink-receiving layer provided on the support, the ink-receiving layer comprising inorganic fine particles, two polyvinyl alcohols having a degree of saponification different from each other, and a low molecular weight polyvinyl alcohol having an average degree of polymerization of 2000 or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Ryoichi Nakano, Wataru Ono
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Patent number: 8231213Abstract: An inkjet ink composition includes a colorant, two or more hydrophilic organic solvents, and particles of a polymer containing a structural unit derived from a hydrophilic monomer and a structural unit derived from a hydrophobic monomer. The polymer has a glass transition temperature of 150° C. or higher and an I/O value of from 0.2 to 0.55, and the particles of the polymer have a volume average particle diameter of from 0.1 to 10 nm.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2010Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Terukazu Yanagi, Akio Tamura, Takahiro Ishizuka
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Patent number: 8225933Abstract: A blister card package structure with increased support comprising a first card having an inner surface and an outer surface, the first card defining an outer edge, a second card having an inner surface and an outer surface, the second card defining an opening therein and an outer edge, a blister having a body portion and a flange, wherein the body portion extends through the opening in the second card, and wherein the flange is positioned between the inner surfaces of the first and second cards, and an inner frame stiffener positioned between the inner surfaces of the first and second cards, wherein the inner surface of the first card is sealingly connected to the inner surface of the second card along the outer edges of the first and second cards.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: MeadWestvac CorporationInventor: Michael Wade
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Patent number: 8226226Abstract: A method for inkjet recording capable of providing an image in which occurrence of color hue difference (color change) is suppressed irrespective of a manner of treatment, which method includes recording an image by jetting an ink by an inkjet method on an inkjet recording medium including a substrate and an ink receiving layer including inorganic fine particles and a water-soluble metal compound provided on the substrate, and drying at least the image recorded on the inkjet recording medium, wherein the inkjet recording medium includes a substrate, a first ink receiving layer including inorganic fine particles and a nitrogen-containing organic cationic polymer, and a second ink receiving layer including inorganic fine particles and a water-soluble metal compound on the substrate in this order from the substrate side, wherein the first ink receiving layer contains the nitrogen-containing organic cationic polymer by a higher content and the water-soluble metal compound by a lower content than those in the secoType: GrantFiled: June 24, 2009Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kawakami, Kazuo Sanada
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Patent number: 8225967Abstract: A dispenser may include a hinged pump mechanism which allows a pump head to rotate about the hinge mechanism during actuation of a pump.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: MeadWestvaco CorporationInventor: Joseph K. Dodd
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Patent number: 8220912Abstract: The present invention provides an ink composition including: (A) a polymerizable compound represented by the following formula (I); (B) a polymerizable compound having a structure that is different from that of the polymerizable component (A); and (C) a photoinitiator, wherein, in the formula (I), R represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, X represents a divalent organic group, m represents an integer of 1 or 2, and n represents an integer of 1 to 20.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Ippei Nakamura
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Patent number: 8222158Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electronic device includes: preparing a film-attached substrate including a substrate, and an oxide semiconductor film containing In, Ga, and Zn and a metal film containing at least one of W or Mo provided in this order on the substrate; and wet-etching the metal film of the film-attached substrate using an etching liquid of which a main component is hydrogen peroxide under conditions such that an etching selection ratio between the metal film and the oxide semiconductor film (etching rate of the metal film/etching rate of the oxide semiconductor film) is 100 or higher.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Fumihiko Mochizuki, Atsushi Tanaka
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Patent number: 8220913Abstract: An ink-jet recording method is provided, which includes (i) supplying on a coated paper a treatment liquid containing 15% by mass or more of a polyvalent metal compound for fixing the components contained in an ink composition and having a viscosity at 25° C. of from 2 mPa·s to 8 mPa·s, in an amount of from ?50% to +50% with respect to the value of ?V [ml/m2] determined by the following Formula (I); and (ii) recording an image by ejecting an ink composition containing a colorant, resin particles, an aqueous organic solvent and water by an ink-jet method on the coated paper to which the treatment liquid has been supplied. Vr represents a roughness index of the coated paper obtained from a measurement of liquid absorbability according to the Bristow method, and Vi represents the amount of transfer at an inflection point where the value of absorption coefficient of the coated paper changes in the measurement of liquid absorbability according to the Bristow method.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasufumi Ooishi, Kiyoshi Irita, Toshihiro Kariya
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Patent number: 8222326Abstract: The invention provides a water-based ink composition for inkjet recording which contains vinyl polymer particles containing a styrene-acrylic acid copolymer in which the total content of the constitutional units derived from styrene monomer, acrylic acid, and methacrylic acid is 45% by mass or more; and at least one of an azo pigment represented by Formula (1), a tautomer thereof, a salt or hydrate thereof; and a water-based liquid medium, and which is excellent in discharge stability after a long-term storage or after aging at high temperatures: wherein, Q represents a heterocyclic group; W represents an alkoxy group, an amino group etc.; X1 and X2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group etc.; R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; R2 represents a heterocyclic group; and n represents an integer of 1 to 4.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Morimoto, Keiichi Tateishi
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Patent number: 8222436Abstract: The present invention provides an oxetane compound represented by the following formula (1), and a active energy ray-curable composition including the oxetane compound as a polymerizable monomer.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hirokazu Kyota